Glove.



' E. LEBLANC.

GLOVE.

(Application Bled Sept. 16, 1901.)

' Patantad 'lu'ly I5, I902.

(No Model.)

Wifrwaaes z UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDOUARD LEBLANO, OF GRENOBLE, FRANCE.

GLOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 704,551, dated July 15, 1902. Application filed fleptember 16, 1901. Serial No. 75,668. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDOUARD LEBLANC, a citizen of the French Republic, residing at Grenoble, France, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gloves, of which the following is a specification.

The objects of this invention are to prevent the opening or gaping at the top of the button-slit, to reduce the quantity of material employed, and to improve the fit of the glove.

Heretofore the thumb-opening of a glove has been formed by cutting away an oval piece of the material of considerable Width. The objects of the present invention are attained by making the thumb-opening in the body of the glove in the form of a slit, substantially no material being cut away. In this case the passage of the thumb through the thumbopening is permitted by expansion of the walls of the slit. The thumb-piece is so cut as to give sufticient fullness across the top of the button-slit to prevent gaping.

Figure 1 shows part of the body-piece of the glove, and Fig. 2 shows a thumb-piece.

a is the body-piece, b the button-slit, and c the thumb slit or opening.

d is the thumb-piece.

e e are swellings on each side of the bodypiece to give additional fullness.

As shown, the thumb-slit is a simple curve, the concave side of which, and consequently the concave side of both edges thereof, is turned toward the palm of the hand. The

I thumb-slit 0 extends beyond the bottom of or overlaps the wrist-slit b.

Experience has demonstrated that the particular construction delineated-is a practical and satisfactory way of carrying out the invention. V

The base edge of the thumb-piece is sewed to the edges of the slit 0. With this construction the usual enlarged opening at the top of the button-slit is avoided, the fit of the glove is improved, and the quantity of material necessary reduced.

I claim as my invention- 1. A glove comprising a body-piece having in it a slit, substantially none of the material being cut away, whose edges form the entire thumb-opening and lie in the plane of the body-piece, and a thumb-piece the base edge of which is sewed to the edges of the slit.

2. .A glove comprising a body-piece having in it a curved slit, substantially none of the material being cut away, whose edges form the entire separately-made completely-formed thumb-opening, and a thumb-piece the base edge of which is sewed to the edges of the slit.

3. A glove in which the thumb-opening in the body-piece is a slit, substantially none of the material being cut away, and in which there is a swelling at each side of the bodypiece opposite the top of the button-slit.

4. A glove in which the thumb-opening in the body-piece is a curved slit whose edges form the entire thumb-opening and both the inside and outside edges of which are curved toward thepalm of the hand.

5. A glove in which the thumb-opening in the body-piece is a curved slit both the inside and the outside edges of which are concave toward the palm of the hand and in which there is a swelling at each side of the bodypiece opposite the top of the button-slit.

EDOUARD LEBLANC. Witnesses: I l p I JAMES LEWIS,- A. MALLERY. 

